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{
"time": "2022-02-14 12:45:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Stephen Ellis",
"fr": "M. Stephen Ellis"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"6937015\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madam Speaker, the important thing to consider about this measure for rapid tests is if it is once again too little, too late, and not at the right time. Everybody in the House wants to understand what the science is. We know it has been a very dynamic situation throughout COVID and we have seen many, many changes, from we should get a test to we should not get a test to maybe we should or maybe we should not, that we should not get one because there are none, that the test we should get is a PCR test and then that it should be a rapid test.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6937016\" data-originallang=\"en\">We also know very clearly from the science that during the omicron wave there was a likelihood that someone was contagious much before the time the person would even show a positive test result. We also know from a scientific perspective that the specificity and sensitivity of rapid tests have been brought into question by some. That interesting part is again what we need to study before the health committee with my hon. colleague, who I am glad to hear would be happy to have us study this in committee. </p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"6937015\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, ce qu\u2019il importe de se demander au sujet de cette mesure concernant les tests rapides, c\u2019est si, encore une fois, c\u2019est trop peu, trop tard et pas au bon moment. Tout le monde \u00e0 la Chambre veut comprendre ce que disent les scientifiques. Nous savons que la situation a constamment \u00e9volu\u00e9 tout au long de la pand\u00e9mie de COVID-19 et nous avons observ\u00e9 de nombreux changements dans les directives, selon lesquelles il fallait subir un test, puis il ne fallait pas en subir, ou il fallait peut-\u00eatre ou peut-\u00eatre ne pas en subir, puis ne pas en subir parce qu\u2019il n\u2019y en avait plus, ou il vaudrait mieux obtenir un test PCR, puis un test rapide.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"6937016\" data-originallang=\"en\">Nous savons aussi tr\u00e8s clairement, d\u2019apr\u00e8s les donn\u00e9es scientifiques, qu\u2019au cours de la vague Omicron, il y avait une probabilit\u00e9 que quelqu\u2019un soit contagieux bien avant de pr\u00e9senter un r\u00e9sultat positif au test. Nous savons aussi, d\u2019un point de vue scientifique, que la sp\u00e9cificit\u00e9 et la sensibilit\u00e9 des tests rapides ont \u00e9t\u00e9 remises en question par certains. C\u2019est cette partie int\u00e9ressante que nous devons \u00e9tudier au comit\u00e9 de la sant\u00e9 avec mon coll\u00e8gue qui, je suis heureux de l\u2019entendre, trouve aussi que c\u2019est une bonne id\u00e9e. </p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2022/2/14/stephen-ellis-5/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/stephen-ellis/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4645/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "11519372",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Ordres \u00e9manant du gouvernement"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Government Business No. 8\u2014Proceedings on Bill C-10",
"fr": "L'affaire du gouvernement no 8 \u2014 Les d\u00e9lib\u00e9rations sur le projet de loi C\u201110"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2022/2/14/",
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}